Re^4: sudo ignoring string entry after first space encountered ("$@")

Thank-you much for your response(s). In theory this should address the symptom and had been recommened from other quarters. However it was to no avail. I changed the script to read the where clause from a file, rather than command line entry, which gets me over the hump for the time being. I'm still in persuit of a pure solution as I suspect this will crop up again.

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Re^5: sudo ignoring string entry after first space encountered ("$1") by tye (Sage) on Apr 16, 2015 at 03:08 UTC
Then perhaps you are parsing the arguments (in your shell script) and using things like `$1` instead of `"$1"`? - tye	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: sudo ignoring string entry after first space encountered ("$@") by RonW (Parson) on Apr 15, 2015 at 19:49 UTC
If passing the string via a file proves to be the only workable option for you, you could write a script that saves the string to a file, then runs the sudo command. This would simplify the users' interactions with your current script.	[reply]